That master plan of six weeks on, one week off of school work?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
This is God laughing at me for trying ANY kind of consistent planning with my obstinate and schedule-adverse children. God usually laughs at our life-plans, so I don't know why I thought this would be any different.
Next week should be one of our break weeks, but forget it. At the beginning of this quarter, we were 12 days behind. Now we're 19 days behind. So no break week. We're just going to have school/learning time every day until I feel like stopping for a day or two (or a week) to take a break. I want Day 180 to be no later than the day before Thanksgiving, so we've got some work to do.
2 comments:
There are 180 school days each year. But what percentage of students make it to all 180 days? If you cover everything you need to in fewer days than that don't worry about it. Your kids are learning so much more than they would in a traditional school program anyway and I'm sure if you take a week off, they'll still be doing something akin to school work during that week.
No, most students don't make all 180 days, and most students don't pass the standardized tests either. But if a homeschooler doesn't toe the line on those requirements for The Government, then you've just handed The Government its excuse for hijacking your kid into their crap system because hey, as a parent, YOU have obviously not educated your kid properly! Disregard the fact that THEY don't educate kids at all.
Mississippi has minimal requirements for homeschoolers - other states are not so kind. "Attendance" records are one of the big ones so I'm trying to get in the habit now of tracking to 180, regardless of what we actually accomplish within that time frame.
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